Nouns denoting natural phenomena
- angular velocity
- (physics) the rate of change of the angular position of a rotating body; usually expressed in radians per second or radians per minute
- heat of solution
- the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance is dissolved in a large volume of a solvent
- acoustic phenomenon
- a physical phenomenon associated with the production or transmission of sound
- tossup
- an unpredictable phenomenon
- calm air
- wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale
- thermoelectricity
- electricity produced by heat (as in a thermocouple)
- butterfly effect
- the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago
- microwave spectrum
- the part of the electromagnetic spectrum corresponding to microwaves
- juice
- electric current
- change
- the result of alteration or modification
- electrostatic charge
- the electric charge at rest on the surface of an insulated body (which establishes and adjacent electrostatic field)
- blackbody radiation
- the electromagnetic radiation that would be radiated from an ideal black body; the distribution of energy in the radiated spectrum of a black body depends only on temperature and is determined by Planck's radiation law
- incidence
- the striking of a light beam on a surface
- Brownian movement
- the random motion of small particles suspended in a gas or liquid
- dichroism
- pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits two different colors when viewed from two different directions
- mutual induction
- generation of electromotive forces in each other by two adjacent circuits
- torchlight
- light from a torch or torches
- heat of condensation
- heat liberated by a unit mass of gas at its boiling point as it condenses into a liquid
- pleomorphism
- (biology) the appearance of two or more distinctly different forms in the life cycle of some organisms
- capillarity
- a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries
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